How the sea was bridged
The 4.7 km-long Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai is set to open soon. Here are some key features of this unique bridge.
The 4.7 km-long Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai is set to open soon. Here are some key features of this unique bridge.
Other suspension bridges Sutong Bridge, Jiangsu, China. Tatara Bridge, Hiroshima and Ehime, Japan. Pont de Normandie, Le Havre–Honfleur, France. |
- The total cable length used to connect the towers is equal to the circumference of the earth (40,075 km)
- The length of the bridge (4 km) is 63 times the height of Qutub Minar in Delhi
- The slabs on the bridge are screwed in place by special nuts and bolts. Each slab is unique and had to be fixed at a specific point
- The piling of the bridge is 100 feet under the sea
- For fixing the slabs, launching Trusses were used
- If the Trusses had to be dismantled and moved, it would have taken almost 1 year
- To save time, Asian Hercules, one of the largest floating cranes in the world, was hired to move the Trusses
- The rental for the imported Trusses was Rs 1 crore per day
—Virendra Verma
